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Picasa is a photo organising application and photo sharing service developed by Google.

(For questions about Picasa Web Albums, the web companion to Picasa, please see Web Applications)

Picasa is a downloadable photo organizing and editing tool for Windows or Mac. It offers face tagging and the ability to easily sync albums to Google+ Photos.

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Does Google Picasa store metadata in the picture files?

Does Google Picasa store metadata in the picture files themselves? If so, what metadata is actually stored inside the files? (as opposed to Picasa's internal database)
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Backup Picasa 'people' tags data

OK, so I've spent a fair amount of time putting names to faces in Picasa 3.5 but in a few days (hopefully) my copy of Windows 7 should arrive and I'll need to reinstall Windows. So, does anyone know what I need to backup so that I don't have to…
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How to migrate from iPhoto to Picasa?

I'd like to migrate from iPhoto '09 to Picasa. Any ideas how? I was planning to run Picasa, let it import iPhoto's pictures and then move the pictures and databases to Picasa on Windows, but Picasa did a mess of the pictures. It picked images of all…
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How to make Windows 7 aware about iPhone photo orientation

When transferring photos from the iPhone to the PC, the photos are not showed by Windows Explorer in the correct orientation, but I know there is some EXIF info in the photo with the orientation information, because Picasa shows them in the correct…
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Picasa 3.5: how to share the tagged faces from one PC to another

At home, we share our photos from a server. I've been tagging the faces in Picasa 3.5 in one PC, but in the other PC the same photos needs to be retagged. Where is this info stored so it can be shared between computers?
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What file format/database format does Picasa use?

I am trying to figure out what file format the .db file and .pmp files are. I tried using db_dump (Berkeley DB) for the .db files, but it seems that they are not Berkeley DB, or of an older version. I have no idea what the .PMP files are. Directory…
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Ultimate way to use Picasa in a home network

I've been trying a lot of approaches but still didn't find any effective solution. I want gigs of photos in a network drive (a IOMega Home Media Network Drive, plugged to my wifi router). I'd like to do 2 things: Do a Picasa import process of all…
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How to safely move all my Picasa folders to another drive

My c:\camera directory contains about 150Gb of photos and videos, with many years worth of Picasa edits. Generally I haven't used the "save edited photos to disk" function, so what's on disk is currently the original. I want to move this whole…
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Is there a face recognition command line tool?

I've download a lot of images in one directory including “People” and “Landscape.” I want to split the directory into two. I'm looking for a Linux command line tool to filter images by face. http://I.stack.imgur.com/XJS1Q.png
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Standard application to automatically rotate pictures based on EXIF

There are few applications, that I have installed on almost every Windows 7 computer. This are applications such as: Windows Live Gallery (Windows Live Essentials) Picasa anything, that comes out of the box with Windows 7 Which of those…
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Is there way to make all Picasa data/metadata portable?

I would like to be able to have "identical" Picasa installs on two (or more) PCs. Essentially my use case is this: I want to bring my hard drive with a large number of photos away with me, plug it into my laptop which has Picasa installed, and make…
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Alternative to Picasa on Linux?

I have installed Picasa on my wife's notebook (it's Ubuntu 11.04 on an HP Pavillion), but she'd like to switch to some other software (there are some issues with Picasa that bother her). She didn't like Gimp's interface (she's an artist, but not…
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Where does Picasa save the edits I make to images?

I am using Picasa to edit my images. After I fixed a bunch of images I looked at them by browsing my file system and find they are all in their original state. I wanted to find them in their altered state with the edits I made in Picasa. I want to…
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Are there any good sources of documentation on the file format of picasa.ini files

It would be nice to know how this file is structured and all its possible sections, keys, and values. Does anyone know of documentation on the file format?
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Find pictures with several people together?

Is it possible to find pictures where several people are together?
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